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Assessing critical issues of engagement between a Christian position and an Islamic position on the question of what salvation means.

Questions of personal Salvation.

Critical issues of engagement between an Islamic position on the question of Salvation and a Christian position are not as clear cut as we would perhaps like it to be. David Pawson[1] highlights an interesting parallel, while in danger of being too simplistic it does draw an insightful parallel in [...]

How I became a Reformed Evangelical Charismatic: Part 2

David Pawson was really the first Christian writer I encountered who had a deep commitment to the Word of God and the Holy Spirit. However his proposal for a Word and Spirit approach was not without complications. In otherwords David’s sacramental and Pentecostal commitments dominated his evangelical commitments.

  

    "Some of you seek for faith much in the same way as you would dig for a well. You turn the eye inward upon yourself and search admidst the depths of your polluted heart to find if faith is there; you search admid all your feelings at sermons and sacraments to see if faith is there; and still you find nothing but sin and disappointment… Look full in the face of Jesus… Drink in His Word… Faith comes by hearing the voice of Jesus."
    Robert Murray McCheyne